A Home Office pathologist found Whitehouse’s injuries, predominantly to her right side and sustained while she was in an upright position, included a broken upper arm, fractured ribs, and a laceration to her liver.
Traumatic injuries to her chest caused “severe bleeding” and led to her death.
Azim is alleged to have picked her up after she was injured and put her in his truck, then called 999 to claim he had seen her being involved in a hit and run.
He drove to nearby Park Street where he stopped and put Whitehouse on the pavement, jurors heard, and was agitated when emergency services arrived, telling them they took too long and she was gone.
“Police thought the defendant’s account was odd,” Brand said. “He admitted he knew Ms Whitehouse and it seemed to be a strange coincidence that he witnessed a hit and run with someone known to him and picked her up and put her in his truck.”
Whitehouse, who was 5ft 3in and weighed less than seven stone (44kg), was declared dead on the pavement.